Word: fevered
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...Bush's surprise at the feeding frenzy is, of course, an act. White House aides wanted a fever for the political cover it provides. When GOP conservatives howl for a $2.6 trillion cut and the Democrats come in at $900 billion, Bush's plan becomes the reasonable compromise at $1.6 trillion...
Even George W. Bush seemed surprised at how hot tax-cut fever was getting. At a White House meeting last week with congressmen from the Ways and Means Committee, Bush marveled that while he had proposed a $1.3 trillion tax cut on the campaign trail, "Now, all of a sudden, people are throwing out $1.6 trillion. Everything in Washington seems to grow." Massachusetts representative Richard Neal leaned over to him. "So, Mr. President," he asked, "what is the real number?" "$1.8 trillion!" Bush shouted, then said he was only joking. But the congressmen weren't. From the back...
...words fail to capture the emotive inertia that propels the last few months, here. It is something akin to the closing minute of the Beatles' song, "A Day in the Life." Over the course of a short time, so many moments conspire in a melody that rises to a fever pitch until that final instant when the tune verges on cacophony, and the song abruptly terminates, leaving you listening to a single lingering note signaling the close of a chapter to your life...
...engineered biological molecules, and the majority are designed to treat rheumatoid arthritis and its close clinical relative, lupus. Like many other autoimmune diseases, both disorders strike women disproportionately. In RA, the immune system attacks the joints and eventually weakens the bones, causing excruciating pain, fatigue and daily bouts of fever. With lupus, the attack is far more generalized, affecting blood vessels, joints, skin and several internal organs. In severe cases, it can be lethal...
...doctors could offer little more for patients suffering from anxiety or depression. And when faced with intractable mental illnesses like schizophrenia, they had to resort to brute force: inducing seizures and comas with chemicals and electric shocks, infecting patients with malaria to provoke brain-clearing fever, or slicing away parts of the brain's prefrontal cortex. In general, desperation guided treatment of the deranged...